One aspect of this Kavanaugh circus may not have received much coverage in the media. If circumstances were ideal in this country by now the Center for Disease Control would have declared a mental health emergency because thousands, if not millions, of women in the United States are experiencing PTSD due to the uncaring and demeaning manner in which the Senate Judiciary Committee is treating Christine Blasey Ford.

I have been raped and molested and I am currently feeling the same withering sense of vulnerability and insignificance that I felt years ago when these assaults happened. You'd think by now that these feelings would have disappeared, but years of therapy and a good life received because of the kindness of great friends do not erase the pain.

How ironic that President Trump wrote of the attempted rape claim against Brett Kavanaugh, “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents.”

Two years ago, at the first presidential debate, he brought Juanita Broaddrick for a press conference and for a front row seat. She claimed that Bill Clinton had raped her 38 years before. She first made the claim of rape 21 years after it had allegedly occurred and after she had signed an affidavit that it hadn’t happened. No charges were ever filed.

After the debate in 2016, Donald Trump called Ms. Broaddrick “courageous” and stated it was his honor to help her.